Alright Twitter. Need some help buying an oscilloscope. Requirements are >2 ch and >100MHz. Been looking at a Rigol DS120B. Any reason not to buy it? Any better options?
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Replying to @OlofKindgren
Instead of >100MHz, I'd spec it at >=200MHz. FPGAs are getting faster every day and close to 100MHz is often just not enough when looking at DRAM signals etc. My Siglent SDS2304X is pricey but good. The 16-chan logic analyzer add-on was a waste of money.
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Replying to @tom_verbeure
I have bought LA add-ons before and never used it either, so I'm shooting for 4 analog ch instead. Agree on the speed. Need to at least see 100MHz clocks with some detail. Still, DRAM and serial buses are even higher and would need another scope
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Replying to @OlofKindgren @tom_verbeure
Jfyi, a DS1104Z samples at 1 GS/s in single channel mode. 100 MHz is just the analog bandwidth of the front-end. So it would still give you plenty of detail on a 100 MHz clock.
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Am I mistaken that the 100MHz clock will just look like a sine wave though, since the harmonics will be low pass filtered or of the signal?
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No. 100 MHz is the -3dB point of that low pass filter. It's not a sharp cut-off.
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